The EU Will Force Apple To Open Up iPadOS (engadget.com) 132
As reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple's iPadOS will need to abide by EU's DMA rules, as it is now designated as a gatekeeper alongside the Safari web browser, iOS operating system and the App Store. "Apple now has six months to ensure full compliance of iPadOS with the DMA obligations," reads the EU's blog post about the change. Engadget reports: What does Apple have to do to ensure iPadOS compliance? According to the DMA, gatekeepers are prohibited from favoring their own services over rivals and from locking users into the ecosystem. The software must also allow third parties to interoperate with internal services, which is why third-party app stores are becoming a thing on iPhones in Europe. The iPad, presumably, will soon follow suit. In other words, the DMA is lobbing some serious stink bombs into Apple's walled garden. In a statement published by Forbes, Apple said it "will continue to constructively engage with the European Commission" to ensure its designated services comply with the DMA, including iPadOS. "iPadOS constitutes an important gateway on which many companies rely to reach their customers," wrote Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President in charge of competition policy at the European Commission. "Today's decision will ensure that fairness and contestability are preserved also on this platform."
"Open" how? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:"Open" how? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm perplexed. One can already change default browsers, email clients, and default handler for quite a few media types. If they mean being able to replace every Apple app with an alternative, that would be borderline extreme.
You can "change" web browsers, as long as they're all really just thin skins over WebKit.
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I bet 90% of years don't even know what WebKit is, let alone care, let alone care about using something in its place.
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I bet 90% of years don't even know what WebKit is, let alone care, let alone care about using something in its place.
I bet 90% of web developers know what WebKit is, and long for actual competition on iOS so that a single browser vendor can't effectively hold back progress arbitrarily for the entire world by not implementing new web technologies in a timely manner.
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It holds back Google from total control over internet standards.
Re:"Open" how? (Score:5, Informative)
Fuck developers.
Apple sells products for customers who use them. Developers are only a secondary markets and a tiny fraction of users. If a developer is unhappy with WebKit, they can go buy something else.
Fuck developers.
Apple sells products for customers who use them. Developers are only a secondary markets and a tiny fraction of users. If a developer is unhappy with WebKit, they can go buy something else.
What part of "web developers" didn't you understand in that sentence? Developers buying different hardware changes nothing.
By not keeping up with standards, Apple is literally holding the entire web back, because until Safari on iOS supports a new web technology, nobody can realistically use that technology on public-facing websites, because they would lose a huge percentage of their users if their site is nonfunctional on iOS.
And by not allowing true third-party browsers that are more than just thin skins on WebKit, no app developers have the ability to create competing browsers that offer those technologies, the existence of which would otherwise put pressure Apple to support those new technologies on Safari/WebKit on iOS. And that doesn't just hurt developers. It limits what functionality websites can offer to end users, which harms end users, whether they know it or not.
More importantly, Apple's heel-dragging is entirely self-serving. By making Safari/WebKit be a second-class citizen in the browser wars, they end up forcing lots of things that could otherwise be websites to be native apps instead, bloating their own App Store with unnecessary crap and taking a profit on things that they really shouldn't be taking a profit on, which then harms users directly through their pocketbooks.
Now do you understand why not allowing non-WebKit browsers is important?
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They make a choice to develop for the convenience of those users.
They could just as well and a choice not to.
Re:"Open" how? (Score:4, Insightful)
Fuck developers.
Apple sells products for customers who use them. Developers are only a secondary markets and a tiny fraction of users. If a developer is unhappy with WebKit, they can go buy something else.
Fuck developers.
Apple sells products for customers who use them. Developers are only a secondary markets and a tiny fraction of users. If a developer is unhappy with WebKit, they can go buy something else.
What part of "web developers" didn't you understand in that sentence? Developers buying different hardware changes nothing.
By not keeping up with standards, Apple is literally holding the entire web back, because until Safari on iOS supports a new web technology, nobody can realistically use that technology on public-facing websites, because they would lose a huge percentage of their users if their site is nonfunctional on iOS.
And by not allowing true third-party browsers that are more than just thin skins on WebKit, no app developers have the ability to create competing browsers that offer those technologies, the existence of which would otherwise put pressure Apple to support those new technologies on Safari/WebKit on iOS. And that doesn't just hurt developers. It limits what functionality websites can offer to end users, which harms end users, whether they know it or not.
More importantly, Apple's heel-dragging is entirely self-serving. By making Safari/WebKit be a second-class citizen in the browser wars, they end up forcing lots of things that could otherwise be websites to be native apps instead, bloating their own App Store with unnecessary crap and taking a profit on things that they really shouldn't be taking a profit on, which then harms users directly through their pocketbooks.
Now do you understand why not allowing non-WebKit browsers is important?
Oh, please!
That's too clever by half.
Apple doesn't allow other HTML Renderers on iOS/ipadOS simply because no one on the Planet has enough resources to keep up with trying to keep ahead of testing for all the constant Updates for multiple HTML Engines. It's just not worth the considerable vulnerability-risks.
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Apple doesn't allow other HTML Renderers on iOS/ipadOS simply because no one on the Planet has enough resources to keep up with trying to keep ahead of testing for all the constant Updates for multiple HTML Engines. It's just not worth the considerable vulnerability-risks.
That's an absolutely ridiculous argument.
I'm not asking Apple to allow Chrome or Firefox to be able to make their browser engine available as a system library where users can override which browser engine to use in an embedded way. That would be silly. If an app developer wants to use a different browser engine, they can choose to embed it into their app. If not, they'll use WebKit.
For non-browser apps, there's no end-user benefit to being able to switch browser engines, because A. an app usually won't w
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I'm not asking Apple to allow Chrome or Firefox to be able to make their browser engine available as a system library where users can override which browser engine to use in an embedded way. That would be silly. If an app developer wants to use a different browser engine, they can choose to embed it into their app. If not, they'll use WebKit.
Except they can't, because Apple won't approve any browser app for iOS/iPadOS that does not use WebKit.
I think you're missing the context of this thread. I was arguing for why the security rationale isn't a valid reason for Apple to maintain that stance, and why it is reasonable for the EU, which has already required them to remove that limitation on iPhone, to require them to open up iOS on iPad as well.
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That’s how you end up with android ecosystem? 50 000 different unpatched devices , 50 000 different compile times , every std under the sun and little consistency between them..
Exactly.
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That’s how you end up with android ecosystem? 50 000 different unpatched devices , 50 000 different compile times , every std under the sun and little consistency between them..
Exactly.
What the heck does users choosing to have a different web browsing app installed have to do with devices not being consistent with one another?
Most apps don't redirect users to external browsers at all, and even if they did, they would have no control over how those external browsers chose to render the content even now. Just because they use the same rendering engine doesn't mean that they can't blow in their own stylesheet, rewrite the URL to go through a rewriting proxy, or do pretty much any amount of
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By not keeping up with standards, Apple is literally holding the entire web back, because until Safari on iOS supports a new web technology, nobody can realistically use that technology on public-facing websites, because they would lose a huge percentage of their users if their site is nonfunctional on iOS.
We should bring back "Works Best In Firefox" badges. Or maybe "Upgrade to Android for the best experience".
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Sure. Because those badges will make people switch.
The only case I can think of where that moved the needle AT ALL was IE vs. everything else... and that didn't make the industry shift. It was just annoying. More often than not, when people hit a page that refused to serve IE, they didn't switch browsers and return - they just didn't come back.
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I was joking, but at least it got saw "Best viewed in Internet Explorer" you could just go to some other website instead of wasting your time with a broken one.
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I should have added an emote - I got that you were joking. :)
But "serious" websites hardly ever implemented the badges. Companies that relied on real revenue streams simply accommodated the browser differences. After all, there were mostly two standards... then three... and then it got worse.
Hate it or hate it more... but the single-minded dedication to WebKit, as much as it "holds back" things, does provide a unified target for developers.
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They could do what we used to do. Design our websites to use the latest and greatest features with fallback for older shittier browsers that were not up to date yet. Then those customers will wonder why their android friends see a better experience and complain and you can tell them it's Apple's fault.
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Agreed. Apple's own doco says:
> Safari is not compatible with all websites. There is nothing wrong with your phone or Safari, it just means the developer hasn't made it compatible.
In other words... they're saying it's the web site owner's fault that Safari doesn't work properly. There's even a nice website detailing all the stuff Safari doesn't do properly: http://ios404.com/ [ios404.com] It's like IE6 all over again.
Apple really need to clean up their act.
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When ever did Apple not implement a new standard in a timely manner?
Your post makes non sense at all.
By forcing other browsers to use web kit, it makes sure all browsers are up to date.
Just opposite of your claims.
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When ever did Apple not implement a new standard in a timely manner?
There are still major bugs in Safari's support for HTML editing when used in conjunction with the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements that I filed... I think over a decade ago. The HTML editing specification dates back to 2011, and those pseudo-elements date back to the CSS 2 spec in 1998.
There are quite literally entire websites devoted to pointing out the parts of the CSS spec that Apple still hasn't gotten right.
If you don't know this, then either A. you aren't a web developer or B. you're actively try
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Maybe get your facts straight before acting like a jackass in public.
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Now do you understand why not allowing non-WebKit browsers is important?
It is a good thing this is in the EU then. The only thing that is important to America is money. Money money money. Money money. Did I tell you that the only thing that matters in America is money? Surely you couldn't have forgotten that the only thing that matters in America is money right? Well, in America, Apple gets away with all of that, the same as Microsoft. I bet you can't guess why. Here, let me help you: Money moNEy money MONEY moNey money.
Has it ever occurred to anyone that America is nothing but
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Fuck developers.
Ah, yes. "Fuck" the people that made your ecosystem the success it is.
Do you think that iPhones would be as successful as they are if it wasn't for the huge amount of apps on the app store? Without third-party apps it would be a very limited experience.
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Oh no you are telling me we live in a time where web developers struggled with browsers holding back progress. I'm glad back in my day we didn't have that struggle because Microsoft was always putting out the superior IE browser. Sure customers wanted to use other browsers like Netscape Navigator, but those were toys for children. IE was a real browser for business.
Microsoft got prosecuted successfully by the U.S. government for antitrust violations because of what happened with Internet Explorer, precisely because their dominance over the browser market on their platform made them too powerful. Note that Apple is in a very similar position with Safari/WebKit on iOS. Now ask yourself if you want Apple to become a convicted monopolist for a second time.
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I'm perplexed. One can already change default browsers, email clients, and default handler for quite a few media types. If they mean being able to replace every Apple app with an alternative, that would be borderline extreme.
And if you don't like Apples ecosystem your quite welcome to the competition (android etc) however I found that most people like the walled garden that apple provides with minimal pests that can be easily eradicated when you have a walled garden and when they switch to apple they rarely go back. So this move by the EU sounds more like a shake down I wonder how many $B it will take for them to say they have a resolution
Has anybody used another app store in Europe since Apple has allowed this over there?
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Has anybody used another app store in Europe since Apple has allowed this over there?
No wonder its to take apple idiots seriously
Re:"Open" how? (Score:4, Informative)
For years I was a OSS zealot. I believed in the dream and ran linux on everything and didn't even want an android phone with google on it. I built LFS on weekends and played with stage 1 gentoo, spending my nights crafting the perfect compiler flags to try for maximum "performance". Then I grew up. Now I want to get my work done and put the tools away. Everything is apple in my house now. MacBook Pro, AppleTV, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. It works, it's nearly seamless and I do not need to work on my machines, I get my work done and I put them away.
I use safari on OSX. That is not going to change because I like the battery life it provides and to be very honest, I have no desire to go download and install software. If there is a default apple option, I'm likely to use it. It would have to be majorly painful and get in the way of my work to make me consider installing another browser or App Store. Hell, I don't really even want to install apps in general. So from that perspective none of this bothers me.
What bothers me is when my grandma or parents get tricked into installing malicious software or app stores and call their IT grandson to help. My support requirements went to near zero when I got them to switch off windows and android. So now I'm going to have to deal with that. Thanks I guess.
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What bothers me is when my grandma or parents get tricked into installing malicious software or app stores and call their IT grandson to help. My support requirements went to near zero when I got them to switch off windows and android. So now I'm going to have to deal with that. Thanks I guess.
That's just because they stopped calling you because you refused to do anything but tell them to buy a new £1000 phone.
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I am using a Samsung Galaxy S8 Ultra tablet for my personal device. I admin a fleet of iOS devices at work so I can compare side-by-side. The Galaxy tablet beats the pants off the iPad Pro in every way despite the fact that Apple isn't there to defend me from the evils of the world.
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The solution I think is simple. An iPad that retains the walled garden, perhaps does not sell in the EU, and is shitware-lite. And then an iPad "Pro" that has a more open operating system like MacOS where its user-beware.
For my mom, and for younger kids, that iPad product is still valuable and what I'd push on them. For normal humans who are aware of technology, the pro model.
But I really just want an iPad Pro with macOS so I can do work when in places I can't set up a laptop. I don't really care about this
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Those people are free to never stray beyond it's walls.
But note, even if literally nobody chooses to go outside the garden, the simple fact that they are free to makes sure Apple is careful to maintain the garden well.
You'd think the EU has bigger fish to fry. (Score:1, Troll)
Apple should do an Elon Musk, first the BS about forcing specific charging plugs, now this.
Give the EU the finger, pull out of the market. See how voters like the EU after that.
Re:You'd think the EU has bigger fish to fry. (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple sell something like $100 billion worth of stuff in the EU every year. Would they walk away from a market that big? I doubt it.
Not all the EU does is bad... (Score:3)
Even before the USB-C mandate, when the EU mandated a standardized charging type, be it Lightning, MicroUSB or USB-C, this greatly helped things.
I know I'm showing my age, but I remember cellphones and laptop chargers [youtube.com] before then. You had barrel connectors, 30 pin connectors, card edge connectors, pogopin connectors, and everything in between. Even if the connector is physically compatible, the pins likely would have different polarities or voltages. Chargers were $60 apiece, and had the cable attached,
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And also note the coming repairability of other parts: a given part only working with a given device will be forbidden.
So as example you will be able to swap out say a screen from one phone with a bad logic board to another with a broken screen. Currently Apple stops that from working..
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And also note the coming repairability of other parts: a given part only working with a given device will be forbidden.
So as example you will be able to swap out say a screen from one phone with a bad logic board to another with a broken screen. Currently Apple stops that from working..
Which neatly stops "chop shops".
Thanks, EU. NOT!
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Laptop chargers are next - Starting December 2024, all new laptops and cameras sold in the EU must support charging by USB-C as well. /And Starting in 2027, all cellphones and other gadgets sold in the EU need to have easily consumer-replaceable batteries with nothing more than standard/simple tools. Apple will certainly have another meltdown over that directive.
As will Samsung, etc.
Stop being disingenuous.
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Laptop chargers are next - Starting December 2024, all new laptops and cameras sold in the EU must support charging by USB-C as well. /And Starting in 2027, all cellphones and other gadgets sold in the EU need to have easily consumer-replaceable batteries with nothing more than standard/simple tools. Apple will certainly have another meltdown over that directive.
As will Samsung, etc.
Stop being disingenuous.
Apple goes to extremes to lock down their devices. They pair & serial-lock batteries, screens, and other component to the motherboard of individual devices.
If a repair company opens up two brand new iphones and switches the screens or batteries between the two, they won't work. If you try the same with a Samsung or other brand phone, it will work just fine.
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Laptop chargers are next - Starting December 2024, all new laptops and cameras sold in the EU must support charging by USB-C as well. /And Starting in 2027, all cellphones and other gadgets sold in the EU need to have easily consumer-replaceable batteries with nothing more than standard/simple tools. Apple will certainly have another meltdown over that directive.
As will Samsung, etc.
Stop being disingenuous.
Apple goes to extremes to lock down their devices. They pair & serial-lock batteries, screens, and other component to the motherboard of individual devices.
If a repair company opens up two brand new iphones and switches the screens or batteries between the two, they won't work. If you try the same with a Samsung or other brand phone, it will work just fine.
You're behind the times:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom... [apple.com]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news... [msn.com]
https://www.imore.com/iphone/i... [imore.com]
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I've been converting older devices to use USB C. You can buy pre-made cables with a barrel jack on one and and a USB plug on the other. In 99% of cases the voltage doesn't have to be exact either, e.g. a 19V laptop will work just fine with a 20V cable.
The only real issue I'm finding is that often the cables aren't clearly labelled with what voltage they are, so I have to put up own labels on. I make some of my own cables too, and buy the USB plugs with Power Delivery PCB built in from AliExpress. Unfortunat
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I know I'm showing my age, but I remember cellphones and laptop chargers [youtube.com] before then. You had barrel connectors, 30 pin connectors, card edge connectors, pogopin connectors, and everything in between. Even if the connector is physically compatible, the pins likely would have different polarities or voltages.
Different voltages and same form factor too, plug the wrong thing and one would've fried the device
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Pin polarities as well. That barrel connector can have the inside part either positive or negative, so even if one did get the voltage right, there was a 50/50 chance.
If that continued today, I'd be expecting companies to have "DRM" chips that wouldn't allow a device to charge unless the charger made some type of proprietary chip negotiation, similar to HDCP.
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The specific charging plug the EU forced on Apple is USB-C and was a great thing.
Apple sell something like $100 billion worth of stuff in the EU every year. Would they walk away from a market that big? I doubt it.
But earlier, before there was USB-C, the EU threatened to force Apple to change from their 30 pin Dock Connector to the abomination known as MicroUSB(!!!)
Which is precisely why Apple devised Lightning; the very first rotation-agnostic Connector in the World with more than two pins. Released before the USB-C standard was even ratified, let alone Released.
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There were barrel connectors with multiple contacts. And they were better.
But that wasn't the connector the EU wanted to Standardize on; so, what's your point?
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Would they walk away from a market that big? I doubt it.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. In America, Apple has a bird in hand.
Do you want to recalculate those odds now?
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Why would I do that? Corporate America is Gollum. They will chase their preciousss dollars directly into the volcano every time.
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Fair enough; although, I think you are being a bit insulting to Gollum. Even Gollum wasn't THAT intense despite being tortured in Dol Guldur and wandering the shadows of Mordor.
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Apple should do an Elon Musk, first the BS about forcing specific charging plugs, now this. Give the EU the finger, pull out of the market. See how voters like the EU after that.
Android phones have the biggest market share in the EU, 65% compared to 25% for Apple. I can guarantee the shareholders won't like Apple leaving the world's second largest economy though.
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how about consoles next? (Score:2)
im absolutely shocked that microsoft, sony, and nintendo are not being targeted with their 100million+ device platforms.
especially nintendo.
xbox one 60million and xbox series X/S 20 million for a total 80 million modern xbox
PlayStation 4 117million + PlayStation 5 50million for 170million modern playstations
Switch with another 140million. seems the only app is youtube and they refuse to allow a web brower.
its absolutely shocking.
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They don't have Apple money. The EU will be around with a hand out soon enough.
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Given the way Microsoft is imploding on the Xbox, it would be hypocritical of them not to consider opening up the PS4/5 since the Xbox would have disappeared.
And people were worried that Xbox would take over the console market because of Activision.
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Let's talk when there are 2+ billion such devices... According to your numbers, all gaming consoles from all vendors don't even add up to 1/4 the number of iOS devices in the world.
FWIW, Microsoft is way more open with their Xbox platform than Sony and Nintendo are with theirs.
I do agree that gaming platforms should be opened up too, but as with most things in this world, it all comes down to scale.
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Stupid (Score:2, Insightful)
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Except when it's Twitter under Musk
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The very definition of a "gatekeeper service" is that no you're not TRULY free to pick an alternative.
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People get locked into Apple's ecosystem. Wouldn't it be great if you could use a cross-platform app store where buying something gave you both the Android and iOS versions?
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Yeah, it would also be great if all my Ford parts worked on a Chevy. All technology should be homogeneous! The USB-C cable is the only valid cable for the rest of time!
While we are at it, we need to get rid of every Linux repo but Snap. I am sure that Canonical could convince the EU to mandate Snap compatibility so all these walled gardens like apt and pacman will no longer be able to rob Linux users of the choice to be 100% compatible with Snap.
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Didn't the US used to do that? Standard headlights, because they often needed replacing back then? There was a round one and a square one.
By the way, the rule isn't that it has to be USB C. The rule is that periodically industry experts and EU experts will consult and decide what it will be going forward, so if something better comes along they can make the change when it is most beneficial for consumers.
That said, USB C should be it for the foreseeable future. Loads of bandwidth, plenty of pins, alternate
I wish Apple would tell the EU to buzz off (Score:5, Insightful)
Where's the open-ness of the PS5 platform, or the XBox, or the goddamned Tesla OS? The EU is simply picking on Apple because none of their member countries can contribute much to technology, and Apple has a lot of money, so they're being total GOONS.
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Give it time. The DMA only applies to the largest tech platforms, but I think it's likely that as the benefits are seen it will start to apply to medium size ones too. Maybe not legislatively, it might simply be that those platforms do it because consumers demand it, or because they want to avoid having the exact terms dictated to them.
That really was Apple's mistake here. If they had done it voluntarily they would probably have got away with worse terms, but because rules had to be made now the EU gets to
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This legislation only exists because no EU company meets their definition of a gatekeeper. The DMA similar to American legislation that targeted Japanese automakers by requiring the cars to be mostly manufactured in the states. It is using legislation to protect an underperforming domestic industry.
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Roku, open your TV sticks!
Vizio, open your televisions!
Google, open your voice puck!
HP, stop making your printers proprietary!
Where does it end? This path is lunacy.
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People live their lives through their phone. There's a qualitative difference.
Like why your car requires a seatbelt and airbags, but your snowmobile doesn't.
"constructively engage" (Score:2)
You know. They're Amer
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Apple said it "will continue to constructively engage with the European Commission..." meaning like they usually do? Meaning they'll ignore calls for negotiations, get as litigious as they can, try to use diplomatic channels, i.e. the US State Department, threaten developers & their own staff, make life as difficult as possible for their users because "EU gubbermint regulations!!!", claim the sky is going to fall in, have hissy fits, & throw their toys out of the pram, etc.?
You know. They're Americans. They'll go full-on "Karen" over this. It's the 'Murican way. Freedom!!!
Don't like the way Apple does business? Don't buy their Products!
It's just as simple as that.
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Don't like the way a corporation keeps its customers in the dark, misinforms & manipulates them, uses elaborate, deceptive, predatory sales techniques & draconian contractual conditions & dark patterns in its "customer service"? Sure, don't sign their contracts (& sales agreements)... but you only find out about why you shouldn't sign their contracts after it's too late. That's why we have consumer protection laws; to keep the arseholes at bay. Apparently, they don't like doing that in the USA.
Don't wanna sell products & services in an economic area that has consumer protection laws? Don't do business there!
We have plenty of Consumer Protection Laws; both at the Federal and State Level.
But we also tend to not generally have such heavy hand, especially when no actual danger or serious financial loss is involved.
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Once more with feeling... (Score:2)
"In other words, the DMA is lobbing some serious stink bombs into Apple's walled garden."
This is the point. The Commission has an agenda of which this is part. Its not financial. Its to open the walled garden. Its not to compel anyone to buy or use anything. Its to make the iPhone as open a platform as an Android phone for those that want to exercise the freedom that openness will give.
"The EU is simply picking on Apple because none of their member countries can contribute much to technology, and Apple
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People have all the "freedom" in the world, they can use a second rate Android or other garbage phone and have all the "freedom" to do anything they want on it.
While I have been working in a very high technology industry for decades - a lot higher than the software gadget business - I don't care anything about cell phone software. I do not want to endlessly grub around in it and find the 2 things that work and 50000 things that don't. I want an appliance I am singularly uninterested in even understanding i
non-paywall link to article (Score:2)
Apple’s iPad Hit by EU’s Digital Dominance Crackdown [archive.is]
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To be fair, the iPad itself has been far more open than the iPhone ever was - it was using USB-C long before the iPhone 15 was forced to adopt it. And I'm sure iPad sales aren't all that great - given how often the lineup is being refreshed.
Chances are, all Apple is going to do is unify the policies between the iPhone and iPad - they're the same restrictions, so the same thing's going to happen.
Of course, Apple might have to stop selling older iPads that won't be able to run the new OS, so Europe may lose o
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Apple doesn't force anyone to use the Apple Store. People are completely free to buy any of the numerous products that don't depend on the Apple Store. Apple doesn't force anyone to buy from them.
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But they don't have to sell to Apple customers. They're free to ignore that market and join in a market they find more to their liking.
Not all companies have to be all things to all potential customers.
The EU doesn't have to allow Apple to do business in the EU. So Apple can either play by the rules or face increasing fines, have assets seized, and be booted from the second largest economy on the planet.
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It's only 30% on apps that sell more than $1m in the app store. Smaller devs only pay 15%. And where's the equity on the Steam Marketplace, or the Sony Playstation store? Picking on Apple because they have the most money/success doesn't make sense. We want a fair playing field for all.
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Well steam I can get games from many game store for my pc, I am not limited to it. If a game developer wishes to place an executable on their own web site, it is not hard to do. As for Sony I agree they deserve the same treatment.
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Pretty much.
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